ATI Radeon X1200

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Mitchell Velasquez
<mitchellvc at gmail.com> wrote:
> El Wednesday 14 January 2009 16:41:09 escribió:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Mitchell Velasquez
>>
>> <mitchellvc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello, Im using a ATI Radeon X1200 (RS690) with the driver radeon. I have
>> > updated my xserver-xorg, the xserver-xorg-ati, xserver-xorg-radeon,
>> > xserver- xorg-radeonhd to the ones from jaunty, so my system is intrepid
>> > with xserver from jaunty. That only because i want to have the latest
>> > release of open source drivers (radeon or radeonhd) to make my card work.
>> > Testing the radeon driver, the performance is better than fglrx wich
>> > reached 220 FPS with glxgears, and now it shows 380 FPS with radeon
>> > driver, but from time to time there is some flickering in the whole
>> > screen that makes appear as  if the x- server were going to crash. That
>> > lasts only a little fraction of a second and it does not happen
>> > frecuently. That behavior is continuous with the radeon driver
>> > distributed with intrepid, so i think it has been improved in performance
>> > and stability. I attached my x.log and my xorg.conf. How can I improve
>> > the performance even more? because with that FPS I can't run compiz. P.D.
>> > I think it has something to do with ubuntu because with debian lenny and
>> > latest fglrx I got 800 FPS, and i was able to run compiz flawlessly.
>>
>> glxgears is not a benchmark.  compiz should work fine on the rs690.
>> As to the flickering, try:
>> Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH"
>> in the device section of your config and see if that helps.
>>
>> Alex
> thanks for your response Alex, I've tried your suggestion but i dont notice
> any change, the screen is still showing some kind of flickering from time to
> time. Do you have any other thing to recommend me in order to dissapear this
> bad behavior of my screen?, on the other hand, wich app i can use as bechmark,
> I mentioned glxgears because everywhere in the web people use that as
> benchmark. thanks in advance for your response.
>

What resolution are you using?  Better yet can you pastebin your xorg
log somewhere?

Alex